Databases, eBooks, Theses and Repositories

Subscribed databases can be accessed on-campus or off-campus; however, you will need to login if you're off-campus. When prompted, students should login using their student number and network password. Staff should login using their name and network password.
Any queries can be directed to: libraryinfo@itb.ie

Academic Search Complete

A multidisciplinary database containing indexing and abstracts for more than 8,300 journals with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. Backfiles to 1975 or earlier available for well over one hundred titles. Full text coverage in engineering, language and linguistics, mathematics, philosophy, physics, psychology, religion and theology, plus others.On-campus accessOff-campus access

Business Source Complete

This is a business research database, and includes more than 2,300 full text journals with backfiles to 1965, and searchable cited references back to 1998. It covers marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analysis.On-campus accessOff-campus access

This is a database of scholarly and general interest titles, government documents and reports, focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment. Topics range from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Contains abstracts and indices of more than 600 titles and full-text of more than 4,600 recordsOn-campus accessOff-campus access

IEEE Xplore Digital Library

This database provides access to high quality technical literature in engineering and technology. Full-text documents are available from 1988 to date, with select content and abstracts back to 1893. This includes IEEE journals, transactions and magazines, conference proceedings and standards, and IET journals and conference proceedingsOn-campus accessOff-campus access

Profiling all major companies, industries and geographies, MarketLine is one of the most prolific publishers of business information today.
Content is produced by an internal team of analysts, drawing on primary and secondary research and prepared under an established methodology that’s been tried and tested over 10 yearsOn-campus access
For off-campus access to Marketline, please click on the on-campus link above. Click on the Shibboleth icon. Scroll to the bottom of the list and select Institute of Technology Blanchardstown. Then login using your student number and network password.

New! Open Dissertations

Created from a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs, EBSCO Open Dissertations™ is a new, free electronic theses and dissertations database offering access to more than 800,000 ETDs.On-campus accessOff-campus access

Regional Business News

This is a supplemental database to Business Source Premier (above). With daily updates, it provides comprehensive full text for regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). Please note this is regional business news from the U.S. and not EuropeOn-campus accessOff-campus access

ScienceDirect

This database is a source of scientific, technical and medical
information. It covers many subjects including science and social science, humanities, horticulture, business, mathematics and engineering. It provides access to over 2,400 peer-reviewed academic journals and allows searching of over 6.75 million articlesOn-campus accessOff-campus access

Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educatorsOn-campus accessOff-campus access

Teacher's TV

Teachers TV from Education in Video provides access to all 3,530 globally-acclaimed instructional videos produced in 2008 by the United Kingdom's Department of Education to train and develop teachers' skills through demonstrations and commentary by teachers, administrators, and other educational experts.Disciplines include: teaching methods, curriculum, teacher training, elementary and early education, secondary education, school administration, technology in education, diversity in education, educational psychology, special education, school safety, gifted and talented education, advanced education and many more.On-campus accessOff-campus access

UK/Eire Reference Center

Combines British & Irish sources (including: magazines, newspapers, and reference books) with international sources to create a collection of full-text research publications. Coverage includes publications such as Economist, New Statesman, PC Magazine, National Geographic, and many more. Newspaper coverage includes full text of publications such as The Times (London), The Sun, The Daily Mail, The Birmingham Post, Irish Times, etc. Reference book full text coverage includes: The Encyclopedia of Britain, The Columbia Encyclopedia, and many others. In addition, this database provides thousands of photos, maps and flagsOn-campus accessOff-campus access

eBooks at ITB LibraryBrowse eBooks from the range of disciplines taught in ITB.
eBooks can be read on-campus or off-campus; however, you will need to login if reading eBooks from off-campus. When prompted, students should login using their student number and network password. Staff should login using their name and network password.
Any queries can be directed to: libraryinfo@itb.ie

All student projects and theses are held in print format on level 1 of the library. They are shelved in the order we receive them, i.e. the highest class numbers are the most recently received. Undergraduate theses are classified as P1, P2, P3... Postgraduate theses are classified as T1, T2, T3...
Use these links to browse disciplines, idenitify titles, locate class numbers etc.

UndergraduateFinal year student projects and theses from all undergraduate disciplines.

Bentham OpenBentham Science publish over 230 peer-reviewed open access journals. These free-to-view online journals cover all major disciplines of science, technology, medicine and social sciences.

Cambridge OpenCambridge University Press is actively engaged with Open Access, publishing a number of Gold OA journals and books.

Children's DatabaseThis was created by the Office of the Minister for Children. It provides access to information on children for policy makers, Government departments, academics, voluntary organisations and the general public. It contains Irish Government policy documents and annotated websites

The Cochrane LibraryA collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, and a seventh database that provides information about Cochrane groups.

Elsevier Open Access Journals All articles in open access journals which are published by Elsevier have undergone peer review and upon acceptance are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.

ERICEducation Resources Information Centre (ERIC) is the world's largest digital library of education literature. It provides bibliographic records of more than 1.2 million journal articles with links to full text articles, if available.

EUR-Lex - European Union (EU)EUR-Lex provides direct free access to European Union law. Here you can consult the Official Journal of the European Union as well as the treaties, legislation, case-law and legislative proposals.

FrontiersFrontiers publishes several of the most cited Open-access journals in the world, is today one of the largest and fastest-growing open-access publishers, receives millions of monthly page views, received the ALPSP Gold Award for Innovation in Publishing in 2014, has publishing agreements with many universities, and collaborates with Nature Publishing Group, Scientific American, Digital Science, OpenAire, CrossRef, OASPA, COPE, Jacobs Foundation, and others to advance Open Science worldwide.

HathiTrust Digital LibraryA digital preservation repository offering a collection of millions of titles digitised from libraries around the world. HathiTrust provides long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives.

HighWire PressOne of the largest archive of free full-text science available. As of 3/25/15, we are assisting in the online publication of 2,434,604 free full-text articles and 7,659,003 total articles.

IngentaConnectHosts scholarly books and journals from a range of different publishers. Millions of articles, chapters and reports are available to search across. Links to the full text of articles can be accessed via other resources, and freely available full text.

Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteMDPI.com, the website of the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, is a platform for peer-reviewed, scientific open-access journals operated by MDPI AG, based in Basel, Switzerland. MDPI publishes over 110 open access electronic journals in diverse disciplines.

OAPENOAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences.

Open Access Theses and DissertationsOATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 3,510,505 theses and dissertations.

Oxford OpenOxford University Press (OUP) is mission-driven to facilitate the widest possible dissemination of high-quality research.

PaperityA multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers

PubMedComprises more than 19 million citations for biomedical articles from MEDLINE and life science journals. Citations may include links to full-text articles from PubMed Central or publisher web sites.

SAGE OpenAn open access publication from SAGE. It publishes peer-reviewed, original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format. Articles may span the full spectrum of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities.

SSRN (Social Science Research Network)SSRN is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. SSRN's eLibrary provides 724,801 research papers from 334,339 researchers across 30 disciplines.

SpringerOpenLaunched in June 2010, includes Springer’s portfolio of 200+ peer-reviewed fully open access journals across all areas of science.

Wiley Open AccessWiley Open Access publishes authoritative peer reviewed open access journals across many research disciplines

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ARANThe digital collection of open access scholarly publications from NUI Galway. ARAN collects, preserves and makes freely available scholarly communication, including peer-reviewed articles, working papers and conference papers created by NUI Galway researchers.

Arrow@DITThe research repository of Dublin Institute of Technology. Also contains research output from Institute of Technology Blanchardstown and IT Tallaght.

CUAL RepositoryThe CUAL institutional repository is an online, predominately OA repository of the research and scholarly output of the CUA Institutes - Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT), Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LYIT) and Institute of Technology, Sligo (IT Sligo)

COREProvides open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and makes them available to the public.

CORA (Cork Open Research Archive)CORA, the Cork Open Research Archive, gives you free open access to University College Cork's scholarly and scientific research publications and theses.

DART EuropeDART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. DART-Europe is endorsed by LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche), and it is the European Working Group of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD).

DBS eSourceDBS eSource is an online service hosting full content materials produced by Dublin Business School staff and students. It contains the full text of articles, theses, conference papers, book chapters and more.

DORAS DCU's Open Access Institutional Repository, providing free online access to research publications and theses from Dublin City University, Ireland.

e-publications@RCSIAn open access repository of research and scholarly output of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The service is maintained and managed by RCSI Library.

LENUS Irish health repository - Ireland's leading source of health-related research and grey literature. Journal articles, dissertations, HSE publications and the collected output of more than 130 health organisations past and present are all freely accessible.

Research Repository UCDA digital collection of open access scholarly research publications from University College Dublin. Research Repository UCD collects, preserves and makes freely available publications including peer-reviewed articles, working papers and conference papers created by UCD researchers.

SHERPAA trial search service for the full-text of material held in UK open access repositories

T-STÓRTeagasc’s Open Access Repository, maintained by the Teagasc Library Service. Stór is the Gaelic word for Repository or Store or Warehouse, and T-Stór is an online “store” of Teagasc Research outputs and related documents. T-Stór collects preserves and makes freely available scholarly communication, including peer-reviewed articles, working papers and conference papers created by Teagasc researchers.

STORDundalk Institute of Technology’s Open Access (OA) Institutional Repository. Making DKIT’s research output, including theses and research papers, freely available to the public via the internet